Simon in action, giving me another lesson on "how to catch fish at Whiteacres". I had to give him a £1, as I had over 90lb!!

Day Five

Peg 9 Acron

73lb

3rd in section

Needed a win, and went for broke. Cost me 2nd, but needed a win badly.

Team Caravan

Martyn 44lb 2nd section

Mark 166lb 2nd section

Neil ???

Top 3 of the Milo Festival

36 points 416lb Mick Jones

36 points 469lb Darren Cox

36 points 438lb Des Shipp

Summary of Milo Festival at White Acres.

An great 5 days away, a great holiday and had a right laugh. I came 25th overall out of 170 ish anglers.

I made a far too many wrong decisions:

Porth feed to the pole line too long. Very bad mistake.

Boilingey I feed groundbait down the edge, should of feed 8mm meat.

Match Lake i should of took more meat, only took 1 unit. The peg was worth 160lb, so should of had another 25% plus.

Twin Oaks, should of fished a method at the start withdead red's as hook bait. Fish the method for 30 minutes, then fish chop worm and caster at 4 meters. Didn't take caster. So fished chopped worms with pellets. Wasn't right, but managed to catch 50lb of skimmers copying Simon.

Last day, needed a win, to get 33 points, which we thought may get in the top 10, which it didn't anyway! I feed groundbait down the edge and foul hooked 8 fish and lost everyone!!

I'm impressed with Colmic's Carpodromo nets. They range from 2.5 meters to 4 meters. The shorter length is ideal for 60lb weight limits. Also these nets are very easy to pull through as they are circle rings (no sharp angles to brake rings). The mess is thick and therefore they keep their stiffens in the water.

Thursday, 24 April 2014

This proved to be a very tough secton. 30lb won my section. Many people including myself struggled for bites. I had 3. 2 carp and a foul hooker, that ripped the rod in, which i played for a about a minute and came back with a huge scale.

I used my Colmic Pro Feed 10ft, nice rod for a retail of £60. Set up wise was 0.20 method line and 0.18 F1 line, to Drennan 16 carp feeder. Simple. 8mm pellet on the hook. Also caught on pop up, 8mm. Used a 14 carp feeder.

Monday, 14 April 2014

Des Shipp won the match with a very impressive 170lb, a new venue record, fair play.

Ivy House fished really well in places! With 3 plus ton weights.

A lot people lost decent fish today, including myself, these big fish can be a waiting game and therefore feed 1\4 pot of 4mm and 2mm pellets and sit it out. Will have to fish heavier, as fishing 0.104 Stream was way too light. Will fish heavier and wait longer. With a lot of fish knocking 12lb to 18lb. These fish are proving hard to catch at the moment. Give it another month to six weeks and I can see the lake fishing really well!!! I think a big 200lb will go very soon.

Saturday, 5 April 2014

Middle Pool was won with 200lb 4oz on the pellet waggler by Ian Dixon.

89lb won boundary on peg 37. The fish seemed to be out of the wind today. Which was a shame, as i had the wind in my face. Which to be fair i thought would of worked in my favour, but unfortualtely not.

Carp didn't feed today on Boundary Pool, and F1's and skimmers made up most of the weights.